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Agrawal, Ajay K. - 2020

Entrepreneurs must choose between alternative strategies for bringing their idea to market. They face uncertainty regarding both the quality of their idea as well as the efficacy of each strategy. While entrepreneurs can reduce this uncertainty by conducting tests, any single test conflates the...

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Contracting Over the Disclosure of Scientific Knowledge : Intellectual Property and Academic Publication

Gans, Joshua S. - 2013

This paper provides a theoretical investigation of the tension over knowledge disclosure between firms and their scientific employees. While empirical research suggests that scientists exhibit a "taste for science," such open disclosures can limit a firm's competitive advantage or ability to...

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Horatio Alger Meets the Mobility Tables

Holtz-Eakin, Douglas - 2000

The question of how entrepreneurship relates to income mobility is cogent given the current public debate about the … sources of income inequality and mobility in United States society. We examine how experience with entrepreneurship has … distribution over time, and to see how their mobility (or lack thereof) was affected by involvement with entrepreneurship. Our main …

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Financial Capital, Human Capital, and the Transition to Self-Employment : Evidence from Intergenerational Links

Dunn, Thomas - 1996

The environment for business creation is central to economic policy, as entrepreneurs are believed to be forces of innovation, employment and economic dynamism. We use data from the National Longitudinal Surveys (NLS) to investigate the relative importance of financial and human capital...

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Entrepreneurial Decisions and Liquidity Constraints

Holtz-Eakin, Douglas - 1993

This paper analyzes the role of liquidity constraints in the formation of new entrepreneurial enterprises. The basic empirical strategy is to determine whether an individual's wealth affects the probability of becoming an entrepreneur, and the conditional amounts of depreciable assets, ceteris...

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Sticking it Out : Entrepreneurial Survival and Liquidity Constraints

Holtz-Eakin, Douglas - 1993

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